Dieppe is a maritime and fishing port on the Alabaster Coast in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region
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View of Antwerp from the Tête de Flandre, opposite to the city.
The annexed view of Antwerp is taken from the Tête de Flandre, a fortified post on the left bank of the river Schelde
Brussels from the Hotel de Bellevue, with the Parc de Bruxelles.
The accompanying view is taken from the Hotel de Bellevue, situated between the Place Royale and the Parc de Bruxelles, in the upper portion of the city of Brussels
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City of Amsterdam, view on the Cingel, Netherlands 1832.
The Cingel is the innermost of four large and nearly parallel canals, which, following the crescent-shape boundary of the city of Amsterdam
Rotterdam, the Oude Haven. General characteristic of Dutch cities.
The annexed scene of the Oude Haven, in Rotterdam, has been selected as an epitome of the general characteristics of Dutch cities.
Side view of the Peruvian Mummy from the necropolis of Ancon.
The disproportion is still greater in the case of the pillow forming the false head. The latter, is here represented without its envelopments, thus giving striking prominence to the peculiarities of the vividly painted features.
Peruvian Mummy. Front and back view of the false head.
Peruvian mummy. Front and back view of the false head of the Mummy. It consists of a square kind of cushion stuffed with leaves and seaweed.
Sections of the graves at the Necropolis of Ancon, Peru.
Notwithstanding the exact measurements taken of individual graves, these sections must still be so far regarded as ideal
Interments under fragments of earthenware.
Here we have a characteristic instance of the burials under fragments of thick-ribbed clay vessels
Interments under earthenware vessels. The necropolis of Ancon.
The body is seated in a crouching attitude and wrapped in cerements under one of those capacious earthenware vessels